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Speech Recognition | History of the Computer

Israeli mathematician and linguist Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915 - 1975, left), of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Professor D. Fry of University College, London looking at an automatic speech recognition device, 24th November 1958. The machine types a phonetic transcription of the speech input. The scientists are attending an international symposium entitled 'Mechanisation Of Thought Processes' at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, London. (Photo by Ron Case/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)